Uniontown, Kentucky, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Uniontown, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Uniontown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Uniontown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Uniontown — the short answer
Uniontown, Kentucky: USDA zone 7a, about 237 days between hard freezes, across 544 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 21
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~237
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 544 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 7a is Uniontown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Uniontown's 237-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Uniontown
Each reading below is measured for Uniontown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredUniontown runs about 237 days between hard freezes — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredUniontown sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Uniontown is in
Uniontown sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Uniontown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Union County.
What Grows in Uniontown
Every plant below cleared Uniontown's own zone 7a and its 237-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kentucky profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Uniontown?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Uniontown
Survey cells within 31 miles of Uniontown checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 131 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Uniontown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Uniontown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Union Products IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Union Co Gas & OilUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Wabash Elevator CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Girten PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Uniontown Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Prairie Dock Co LLC - Camp TerminalUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- SharkysUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- William Harris PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.5 mi
- Ohio No 11 MineUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- JOHN T. MYERS LOCKS & DAM-TREATMENT PLANTBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- IDNR HARVEY LAKE FISH & WILDLIFEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- Hamilton No 2 MineUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Uniontown's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Uniontown.
Total Sites
112
within ~10 miles of Uniontown
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Uniontown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Uniontown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Uniontown, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Uniontown — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (8 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Uniontown
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Uniontown
Everything above resolves to Uniontown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 544 acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Uniontown Average
Uniontown Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Uniontown
- ●One soil character for all of Uniontown
- ●Frost dates read at Uniontown's scale: Mar 21 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Uniontown's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Uniontown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Uniontown, Kentucky — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Uniontown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Uniontown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Uniontown average
How we know this about Uniontown
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Uniontown’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Uniontown
When does frost risk typically end in Uniontown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Uniontown typically lands around Mar 21, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Apr 11.
When is the first frost in Uniontown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Uniontown typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 237 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Uniontown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Uniontown sees about 237 frost-free days — roughly Mar 21 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 11 to Oct 30, about 202 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Uniontown?
The federal record around Uniontown is a meaningful one — 112 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (59), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Uniontown?
From about Oct 14 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 13 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Uniontown's scale — its 7a band and its 237-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Uniontown's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Uniontown’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Uniontown's own scale — its own ~237-day season between 28°F freezes, the 544 acres it covers and 112 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Uniontown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Uniontown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 21 and Nov 13 and the ~237-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 112 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Uniontown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Uniontown's boundary and the 544 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~237-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Uniontown's own centroid, the Interior River Valleys and HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Uniontown checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Uniontown's 544 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Union County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Union County
- The growing challenges every Kentucky grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kentucky
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Union County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Uniontown's 544 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Uniontown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 544 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Uniontown-wide figureread your own land →
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